CLOUDS ON CLEAR SKY
CLOUDS ON CLEAR SKY is the result of Johanna Ackva's long-standing exploration of experiences around death, mourning and finitude as realities at the core of life. For the dancers of different generations and backgrounds, she acts as an interlocutor in this project. Taking up autobiographical experiences, reflecting on emotional and political implications of death, as well as diving into iconographic and poetic dimensions are tools for the search for a physical language of one's own.
The four evenings are framed and interwoven by the sound of composer Evelyn Saylor and the design of the space: chalkboard-like surfaces on parts of the floor and walls serve the dancers as a canvas on which they mark noteworthy moments of their dance and inscribe them in the space. As memories of past moments, their chalk marks are both signs of absence and presences to which subsequent dancers relate. Through the collaboration I was able to get to know Johanna Ackva, the Fourth World as well as the dancers and enjoyed very much to be able to approach this heavy topic with such depth, calmness and even lightness.
